#fuck a peaceful protest. riots work.

[anarchotahdigism]

The Israeli occupation of Palestine has clearly been herding Gazans into "safe zones" that the occupation then bombs to force the survivors to relocate in a slow but steady effort to push them all out into Egypt or to their deaths yet there has not been a single fucking riot in the so-called west by the so-called left People are being forcibly marched to their deaths, facing summary executions, famine, disease, but all these fucking westerners can manage is a fucking letter writing campaign and some parades that only result in the spread of COVID because it's nearly all performative outrage.. If even 1% of these radlibs got together with friends and fought cops and burned down precincts and blockaded military bases, the Israeli occupation would lose the unmitigated support it's enjoyed from the bloodthirsty Democrats & other vaunted "enlightened" neoliberals. The genocide could be halted quickly if so-called leftists actually cared enough to stop genocide. The only people doing direct actions are also the only people I've seen consistently masking.

Western leftists have personally aided and abetted and embraced one of the largest genocides of the past century by participating in the fascist Big Lie that is the back to normal propaganda. Tens of millions are dead, with more dying every day, because Western leftists could not and would not hold to their principles and resist eugenics. Instead, they embraced Nazi positions about unmitigated spread while clutching pearls at genocides perpetrated by more overt and kinetic means. They have spread suffering, disablement, and death, but still position themselves as "friends" and "allies" to the oppressed. Their labor unions have remained virtually silent on the genocide of COVID while breaking silence largely to support the Israeli occupation. Western "leftists" are fucking worthless, broadly speaking. I am disgusted constantly by the ableism on display by those claiming to oppose one genocide while at best ignoring another, if they aren't merry participants. These deaths could all stop if y'all would fucking put on masks and riot.

#anarchism #anticapitalism #genocide #free palestine #death to america #genocide joe #death to the west #fuck a peaceful protest. riots work. #covid #wear a mask #ableism #eugenics #anarchotahdigism #eat the rich

[tadpoledancer]

today's the day! the sun is shining and we get to see if the president of the united states actually has the balls to be true to his word and not give the planet another death sentence!!🥰

#willow project #deep down i know hell approve it. he doesnt care #nobody in the government cares anymore #no matter how loud we scream for help they dont care #peaceful protests and petitions alone dont work we need to fucking riot because that is the only way they will ever listen #for legal reasons this is satire #🫡

[buildabettermeme]

Why is no one talking about the riots and protests over the murder of 17-year-old Nahel by police in France?

This boy was only 17 years old, shot in the chest in the driver's seat by cops. People seem to think there isn't racism in France but there is. We all need to be talking about this. Nahel should not be forgotten.

The French government is attacking their own citizens with 40,000 police officers (yes, 40k cops) to quell the unrest. 5,000 cops are being sent to Paris alone.

The French government needs to realize that there wouldn't be riots if you didn't allow cops to and protect cops who kill unarmed, non-threatening, peaceful civilians, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN. French citizens won't let their government get away with this. Neither should the rest of the world.

If we all join forces to condemn this horrible tragedy, all across the world, maybe less young POC people will be murdered in cold blood by police officers. Maybe the French government WON'T sanction murder of their citizens for exercising the basic human right of free speech and protest. Maybe, one day, cops will have stricter standards and punishments. Maybe, in the future, there won't be cops at all, and no one would die by their hand. But we HAVE to work together to ever see that happen.

Blow it up. Blaze it if you want to. Find every post about this murder that you can and FORCE the media to notice.

Nahel's mother is organizing the protesting and has been photographed speaking and acting out for her son. We should also support her, because not enough parents would do this for their murdered child/ren. I know mine wouldn't. But she is, and she deserves to be recognized and supported.

Don't let children be murdered in vain, without notice, without awareness, without action. If we will not avenge our next generation, they won't be here to avenge anyone else. Don't let them die, especially not like this.

I don't know how to start a GoFundMe but if anyone did and wanted to, this would be a great place and cause for funds to go to.

Make the French government quake in their boots. Make them terrified of their own people. Make the government pale at the reality that is facing them; they will lose everything, all of their power, all of their money, if they do not get their shit together and protect their goddamn people.

This CNN article is horrifically boot-licking, however it is the most comprehensive reporting I have found in English, and my French is unfortunately nonexistent.

Don't buy into the copaganda. These fuckers are murderers, plain, cold, and simple.

Fuck the French police.

Fuck ALL police.

(Disclaimer: I am horrible at tags, I'm learning I swear)

#nahel #police brutality #police murder #child murder #french police #france #riots #gun violence #protesting #human rights #civil rights #fuck the french police #justice for nahel #justice for cop brutality #justice #poc #people of color #racism

[the-delta-quadrant]

just saw the most liberal shit on my insta feed you all

a trans protests page saying that our "anger has a place but peaceful protests are the only way forward"

and then they said "fighting for peace is like screaming for silence"

they used that cringe quote that i thought was so deep when i was 14 😭🤡

and it doesn't even make sense?? you can't ask quietly for silence. anyone who's ever been at school knows that the teachers have to shout over the students for them to be quiet. in the same way, asking nicely for our rights doesn't fucking work.

moreover, stonewall was a riot and it's the reason we have literally anything now

#queer #trans #transgender #nonbinary

[madohomurat]

i was thinking about how i wish "angry mobs" were as easy to create as cartoons made them seem, and then i started thinking about just how often the concept of "angry mobs" was used in childrens cartoons to represent stupidity or foolishness or irrationality and its like huh. yeah that was just propaganda huh. just heavy handed propaganda all over my baby cartoons.

even now people still have a hard time removing the heavily drilled correlation of the word "riot" with "evil/bad"

peaceful protest does not and never has worked. voting does not work. democracy does not work.

an angry fucking mob has always worked though, which is why they want everyone to think its a stupid, fucked up irrational thing to join arms with your neighbors and confront people who are doing you dirty, lol

#cy texts #like. angry mobs actually slay. lets bring them back

[arsnof]

Robert Evans as the Riddler.

It is 2019 and riots are breaking out all over Gotham. What started as peaceful protests over police violence, accountability, and the death of Joe Chill quickly escalate when the GCPD GCPDed. People are angry that the police managed to solve the Wayne family murder in under a week while thousands of existing cases are ignored.

Moreover, just as quick as elderly black man Joe Chill was implicated in the murder, he was also shot dead by police. The cops said they exchanged gunfire with Chill and he was struck while running away. The autopsy showed that he was beaten before being shot point blank in the back of the head. The cops were never even put on leave. Gotham exploded.

Enter journalist Ed Nigma. Nigma, a brash, 30 something thinkpiece writer has covered conflicts across the globe and even he has never seen violence on this level. He jumps into the streets, covering the inner-city war zone.

Police tanks parade down the street. Rows of armored police shoot tear gas and beanbags into teenagers with gas masks and cardboard signs.

Ed is interviewing first aid teams carrying milk jugs when he is caught in a kettle. Despite wearing a vest and helmet loudly declaring him as PRESS, he is beaten into a coma.

Six months later, the riots have been suppressed. A handful of cops have been suspended as a concession to the people. Tanks still roll in the streets. Ed disappears from his hospital bed.

Another year and the security theater has only grown. The police coffers swell and they are spending as quick as they receive. New transfer Jim Gordon doesn't get it. Drones and acoustic deterrents and crowd suppressants andAI facial recognition.. Jim's too old for that.

A beat cop from Chicago, Gordon keeps it clean. Descendant of militant abolitionists, Jim will do what's right, no matter the cost. His sense of justice led him to police work. His sense of morals led him into the path of his superiors, who punished him by sending him to the dirtiest precinct in the country.

His first assignment is reports of a strange podcast (what is that even? You have to what? What's an app?) that seems to be threatening local industrialist Derek Powers. Jim listens through the three available episodes. They cover Powers; his early life in South Africa and Venezuela. Inheriting his fortune. Claims of slavery and rape and murder. Each episode ends with a promise to kill Derek.

The episodes are listed as a four parter, with the last one streaming tonight. Jim tunes in with the help of his daughter, Barbara (that girl is smart!). Jim makes her leave as the host has a rather filthy mouth and is quite raunchy.

It starts normally enough. A list of social connections that reads like a terrorist watch list. Flights to isolated islands. Associations with the police. This last part catches Jim off guard, as it details Powers' involvement in the Joe Chill protests. The host alleges that Powers paid off commissioner Loeb to get extra protection around his building and giving them permission to get extra hands on if necessary.

"And that's it for ol' international pervert and expert trout seducer Derek Powers. Hey, Sophie, you know what- what really.. really.. uh, explodes? My office building? Aw, fuck, I fucked up that transition. Anywho, join us next week on the podcast whose name is literally just a question mark when we start a three parter on Ace Chemicals and the incredible world of crowd control!"

Gordon sits in silence for a minute. If what this.. 'Riddler' says is true.. Powers is a monster. A sick Bastard. A.. a.. His phone rings. It's Bullock. Jim thinks Harvey Bullock is only putting on the airs of a dirty cop. Somewhere under that trench coat and cigar is a decent guy trying to do good in a place that actively tries to beat you down. Bullock says to turn on the news. Powers Plaza has been bombed. Derek and six shareholders are dead.

His eyes move from the burning tower on the TV to the podcast app on his computer. The question mark logo purple on green. What the hell is going on in Gotham City?

#the riddler #robert evans #behind the bastards #ed nygma #jim gordon #batman

[iteratedextras]

So we're not going to tag the person that wrote this:

‘93% of the BLM protests in 2020 were peaceful’ yeah that’s why they didn’t fucking do anything. Peaceful protests are only for optics; to try and convince the white people in power that we’re ‘orderly’ and don’t want any trouble, yet they still coined us as ‘violent radicals’ so at this point, what benefit is there really for future protests to be peaceful?

Because this person is the purifying violence + racism type, and you can never trust what they're going to do. But we're going to respond anyway, because it should be answered.

The riots killed about 2 dozen people and caused over a billion dollars in property damages based on insurance claims alone.

Multiple major corporations donated money to "BLM" groups, which then got siphoned off to buy land and mansions.

Why did it get siphoned off? Because there was no actual, non-bullshit, program that leftists were broadly aware of to reduce police violence, or to reduce criminal behavior. To the degree that there were programs that showed long-term effects in crime reduction (like Perry Preschool), they were pushed out of leftist popular consciousness by race scientistic bullshit like racial "privilege" theory, which proposes an unfalsifiable inherited racial taint and produces zero beneficial results.

From where they currently stand, there is no path where burning more Target® department stores down somehow gets them reduced police violence.

For violence to be effective, one must have a solution that can be implemented in the first place. Violence cannot implement a solution that does not exist.

One can attribute the nation-wide increase in homicide to a nation-wide wildcat police strike, but if police refusing to do their jobs increases the homicide rate, this implies that police actually do reduce homicide - and since so many of the victims are not "white" or "white-adjacent," not just for "white" people.

So just flat "defund the police" is out. If social programs are supposed to pick up the slack, then which social programs are to be used needs to be known beforehand, because if the social programs don't work, then that's just letting criminals prey on the weak and unwary.

The CHAZ managed to kill more black men per capita than the regular police.

So just replacing the police with left-wing vigilantes and anarchist communes is out, too.

[homo-taylorsversion]

American trans people. We. Need. To. Fight. Back. No more peaceful protest. No more walk outs. No more marches. No more sitting back and hoping someone else is going to step up. We need to riot. We need to be loud! We need to be hear and seen! We Cannot be silenced anymore. We need to do something and obviously nothing else is working!

All you Cis people within the LGBTQ+ community who are against trans people, Shut the FUCK up about the "LGB WITHOUT THE T" bullshit. Their going to go after you next, which they already are. We're all fucked!

All you people who don't think this isn't happening. It is. Over 400 bills targeting trans people in America. Half which are not even on the news. In MONTANA they silenced a democratic representative, zooey zephyr (who a trans woman by the way) because she called the republican party out and they didn't like that.

We're all in this together and if we don't do something now, we're going to fucking die and we already are!

For the love of whatever you believe in or not believe in, we need to do something! They cannot win!

We have the right to over rule the government! It's in our constitution! If Trump supports can, why can't we?

Religion cannot interfere with government and their doing exactly that!

@tspnarratorturnedmetrans

#transgender #transmasc #nonbinary #transmaculine #lgbt pride #trans #lgbtq #lgbtqia2+ #transfem #trans genocide #transrightarehumanrights #trans rights #trans issues #america #protest #walk out #riot #zooey zephyr #trans bills #anti trans

[historia-vitae-magistras]

Zee had seen horrors she and Arthur had never been willing or able to put into more words than "I didn't think it would be like that, Dad," and "I know, dear girl," As he held his youngest in a grip like a vice.

Sobbing Arthur and Zee have my entire heart. It's super fucked up because empire-and-colony dynamics, but that softness is still there and it kills me. She's a colony, literally born to enrich him and spill blood for him, but she's also his little girl and he doesn't want her to have gone through that.

Jack had never had a temper that lasted before the war. Zee had never had open disrespect. They had never come to shouting matches.

I'm still hung up on your post about how Jack never truly came back from Gallipoli. Their family was fucked up from the beginning but WWI made it both worse and clearer. Arthur's thinking so much about how much they all suffered but it seems like he can't bring himself to acknowledge that it's his fault.

They had been easier to deal with than Matthew.

That stabbed me. His sunny boy never came home and his darling girl stopped being so (outwardly) sweet... but that was easier than what he turned Matt into.

Whatever about conscription that had snapped him out of place and left him broken was already inherent to the weak nature of the piece of the French empire he had inherited. That's what they had decided a century ago, and that was the end.

There's a lot here that I can't really articulate so I'm just going to kind of list things. Arthur and Matt "deciding" what had broken in Matt. Blaming it on his French-ness, just like they've all blamed everything on forever, even though it's the stiff-upper-lip Anglo Protestant work ethic that gets him a lot of the time. "that was the end." The whole "we decided that's the problem and that's it" being an expression of the Anglo repression and demands that's the real cause even as they're deciding that it's actually the French aspect.

I just... there's a lot of self loathing and go-along-to-get-along on Matt's part, and a lot of unwillingness to face things lest he find himself responsible on Arthur's part wrapped up in that passage.

All of them had suffered the results of conscription. A crisis in Australia resulted in him never passing involuntary service. Zee had, but it did little. The riots in Quebec were no worse or better than any other. And unlike the rest, Matthew had gone home to a peaceful world with access to Alfred's deep pockets. He'd been fine. Fine. Just fine.

The denial is tangible. Arthur has to convince himself that nothing worse than usual happened and Matt recovered fine and most of all that it's not his fault, because Arthur Kirkland does not admit mistakes. But he knows, even if Matt never says it, even if Matt goes along with the "it's the weak Frenchness" narrative, that Matt was not fine, still isn't entirely fine, and it's at least partially because of Arthur.

And now I'm wondering if he has to convince himself Matt came out fine because Jack and Zee didn't - like he can't deal with having traumatized all three of the children still in his care so thoroughly, so Matt has to be fine despite any evidence to the contrary.

Arthur is very much my favorite character because he and his relationships are so complex, and you capture everything so wonderfully. This piece was so amazing and has been living rent-free in my head all month.

ALL OF THIS THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. im just aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh

#the ask box || probis pateo #why i write #naxos

[anarchotahdigism]

I know i say "wear a mask and riot" and "fuck a peaceful protest" but I'd had a nice long post about how digital work and advocacy is praxis (or can be) on my old account. Right now, COVID is spreading and killing thousands of people in the US alone and nearly all """radicals""""" and """""leftists"""" are philosophically no different than the fascists they claim to oppose because they are so thoroughly wedded to eugenics that they refuse to wear and enforce masking. COVID causes long COVID in 10-30% of cases so the so-called US alone may well be a majority disabled nation now due to rampant eugenics forcing the spread of COVID. Long COVID is a rotting death and makes everything an order of magnitude more difficult if you still are able to do the things you were prior. Repeated COVID infections means you're guaranteed to be immunocompromised permanently and disabled in other ways you'll likely find out the hard way. With 40% of cases being asymptomatic and most only showing severe symptoms after 2-3 infections, and many starting to drop dead after 3 to 5 infections, many people accrue damage from and spread COVID without realizing it until it is far, far too late. As a result, it's guaranteed that the ableists have disabled and killed people. They've kept disabled people like me who are high risk out of radical spaces & communities. They've abandoned solidarity for everyone but the abled, ableist middle class while focusing most of their efforts on electoralism, despite the clear and constant failures of such actions. The BLM Rebellion of 2020-2021 had significant---albeit broadly temporary--impacts on electoral politics, society, and communities because it was a constant and ongoing rebellion that was also much more disability inclusive than prior leftist movement moments. For the first time, people recognized the need for remote actions & support because while masking was at the high water mark, more abled people understood that a lot of us disabled could not and would not risk COVID but we had had skills vital to the project. Things disabled people were absolutely critical for during the BLM Rebellion: police scanner observation and transcription, evacuation coordination, event & route planning, translation services, postering, graphics art & design, self defense seminars, radio nets, mutual aid fundraising, mutual aid distribution, bail fund coordination, zine writing, mask & test distributions, contact tracing (remember this??!??!), car brigades, organizing medical supplies, teaching first aid skills, and countless other roles often organized & performed remotely. For every fighter, there are at least a dozen support roles and with some thought and effort, those roles can be aided or done digitally. Posting on its own can be praxis in that it shares information, knowledge, tactics, demonstrates that there are other radicals out there willing to do what they can, normalizes radicalism, and in some cases, regimes pay close attention to internet support.

During the height of the Jina Amini rebellion in 2022, the Iranian regime tried to cut the internet repeatedly to stifle information out of and into Iran to hinder protest coordination and outrage. It also paid extremely close attention to when the rebellion was trending and refrained from reprisals until the mass attention of the internet citizenry turned away. Posting literally helped save lives by forcing the regime to wait, buying people time to organize, prepare, and act accordingly in Iran and internationally. Personally, I will always remember and be grateful for the Palestinians who turned out across the world, but especially in occupied Palestine, for Iranians. Iran is not the only regime that will wait until posts slacken and attention wanes before massacring people. If you are disabled, if you have arrest risks, if for any reasons you don't want to be involved in a radical riot, but you want to support those who can and do, there is so much you can do year round but especially things kick off!! Any skills, resources, knowledge, or support you can organize or contribute is valuable! eSims for Gaza right now are monumental in ensuring Gazans can coordinate information, requests, record Israeli occupation war crimes & apartheid cruelty, and many disabled graphics designers are offering their services in exchange for esim donations. It's been incredible to see.

The people who are against digital activism are ableist and racist and ignorant as hell beyond that. You can make an impact and even save and change lives while homebound. Begging genociders to stop profitable genocides has never and will never work. Riots & boycotts work because they directly confront and attack power and if those actions are supported by communities, they can continue for quite some time, as we saw with the BLM uprising. Regimes do not fall because people ask regime leaders to please stop committing atrocities; they fall when the people are able to bring to bear the sum of their hopes and wrath and bring the fight to those who have been oppressing them. That requires inclusive community & an outright rejection of the regime and its systems of cooptation & recuperation.

If a revolution or movement isn't inclusive, if it excludes the disabled, the poor, the marginalized, the oppressed, it's not a revolution or movement, it's just another genocidal regime change.

#covid #ableism #wear a mask #antifascism #anticapitalism #anarchism #antizionism #free palestine #genocide #eugenics #death to america #jina amini #jina amini rebellion #jina amini protests #jin jiyan azadi #anarchotahdigism #acab #eat the rich #swana diaspora #swana solidarity #death to israel #death to the west #glory to the resistance

[myrddin-wylt]

One of the many things that piss me off about British people as a whole is their almost inability to do violent protest, sure we've picked up peaceful protests and striking but it hasn't been working, I disagree with France in a lot of things but one thing they have going for them is the fact that they know when violence is indeed the answer, people here are so very scared to do it , yet we've had more prime ministers in 7 years then we are meant to have in 25, people cant simply afford to live or eat or anything, yet no one is doing anything about it.

Violence usually isnt the answer, but sometimes it is what is needed to get you heard.

That is all, apologies for the rant

Oh I see I'm back to posting controversial content. That was fast but sure I guess.

Honestly the biggest tragedy is that the Brits could have made 2022 the Year of the Four Prime Ministers and they didn't. missed opportunity imo.

also I may be the one person on tumblr who thinks this but. yes violence is sometimes the answer and I do think a country's politicians should have a kind of healthy fear of their people but like. I really do not consider the French a good example here and I'm fine with being that outlier. like at some point the French need to get their shit together and figure out a solution that isn't rioting or threatening to elect fascist Le Pen.

You know who does civil unrest right? Ukraine. I beg you take your example from Euromaidan, not the French.

in any case I have some respect for the Brits' willingness to throw out their Prime Minister the fucking moment they put a toe out of line tbh. it's definitely refreshing when, in comparison, the Germans will let Scholz get away with murder. like yeah it's embarrassing that Boris Johnson got back in but ya kicked him out and, well, clearly everyone is pretty susceptible to populist leadership rn. like we kicked Trump out and motherfucker is trying to make a second run, so I won't throw any stones here.

#ask #anon #I lost 3 followers while asleep let's keep it coming #lower the rent via VIOLENCE

[queen-shiba]

I keep coming across so many posts where Americans (South Americans, I swear to fuck, you KNOW which, now hush) are just oh so baffled and ashamed of what the government is doing.

First off, why are you baffled? Did you NOT pay attention in history class? Did you not pay attention to the protests running around? The riots over dumb shit like Trump? What is so surprising about this?

And why did you have faith in this country in the first place?

Second, why are YOU ashamed? You didn't do anything. You have nothing to be ashamed of. You're not causing or being part of the bullshit. Hell, you're not even contributing. If anything, you should be offended if you're insulted because you're American BECAUSE you didn't do anything. ESPECIALLY if you're a person of color. You definitely ain't do shit and neither did your ancestors. Unless you're part of a group who's ancestors did shit, but you know who you are.

Anyway, what I'm saying is, don't be baffled, don't be ashamed. Just work to fight against it. It's like y'all have the right to bear arms and forgot. Am I suggesting a riot? Well, the constitution that the government gives no fucks about said we could. But this requires organizing! Which none of y'all ever do, ya discombobulated fucks.

We'll be stuck in a loop forever because y'all wanna be peaceful so bad.

#this is america #african american #american #america

[is-putin-dead-yet]

I'm currently one of the people that's sharing the protest leaflets around and doing diversions, not going to actual protests because they're, imho, not realising you can't "peace our way out" of this fascistic country, and the only protest needed rn is a riot... but I'm so tired of seeing how many people are just ready to give up and go along with these idiots in the government. I wish I could just go and bring the blog's name closer, but for THAT it would take people and guts to back me up to reach the old fuck, and I feel like we're almost all out of it and hope as well.

it really is a perfect time for riots in big cities especially since they already threw some of the most dangerous police forces to the frontlines

don't give up on hope, the more apolitical people need some time to take the whole situation in until they realize how it is going to impact them personally and start doing something about it

i wish you luck and to be strategic about the activism work you do

[shockissheep]

I'm sorry but human rights have historically never been granted through purely peaceful protests alone. Don't give me that "violence is never the answer" bullshit. Stonewall was a riot for fucks sake. It's crazy how people look at what's happening to trans people around the world and don't think that we should physically retaliate in some form. "Oh but it'll make trans people look bad" that's what people who want to de-escalate civil rights movements say. Who gives a shit about respectability? Let the people who want to take our rights away know that they should be scared. It's worked in the past, what makes now different? Hell even our worker's rights, what little we have, have been found through putting fear in the hearts of bosses. Until we're able to dismantle the imbalanced power structures that allow people to rule over others we will always have to fight against those rulers. None of this is to say that EVERYONE should fight though because not everyone can for one reason or another. This is to tell you to stop and think that the next time you say, "violence is never the answer," you are forgetting where we've been.

#rant #vent

[sab-teraa]

It's all for their own selfish reasons. Plus I'm from the countryside and we know that it's all b.s. what their working for/towards - please take care of yourself babes! But again scare tactics work. Lol living through historical events is so unserious. Off topic but like I read about at least 3 different governments/political parties doing a madness. So I'm taking what little comfort there is in that!

Thank you! Please take care of yourself too 🤗💛 exactly! I did not take them seriously till they delivered those papers to OR tambo … like be fucking serious 😭😩 I’m sorry to say it … but that was a major t aliban move on their side 🤷🏽‍♀️ yet?? They still want us to consider it a peaceful protest???

IM SICK OF LIVING THROUGH THESE EVENTS! I’ve had enough lmao.

Yesss! and tbh, after seeing how everyone came together after the 2021 riots, I have faith 🤞🏽 also, one thing I appreciate are these parties working together in times like this 🙏🏽 the only time THAT party works with anyone is to overthrow a D%A mayor lmao (allegedly 👍🏽)

#ask

[biohazard-inevitable]

Shot Heard Around The World

The dragon and the fox part 16

(Pardon that this one is short im kinda starting to loose steam a bit but I still have things I wanna write! I had ideas for this scene but they slowly dissappeared from memory the longer i cooked it in my brain)

Being a part of Overwatch, while only for a short time, had been relatively enjoyable. Zayne felt he had actually been able to make a difference in his work, saving lives instead of taking them, and he had made quite a few friends along the way, though with the crumbling state of the organization and the constant protests outside, it was only a matter of time before they all had to go their seperate ways, especially after commander Morrison’s death, leaving what was left of Overwatch without a leader.

Though Zayne wasn’t entirely alone in the aftermath of it all, even with the base collapsed into rubble, he still had his brother by his side with an entire world that could still use help with how common the riots and other disasters were, which led the two of them on their journey across the world together, and to the small American town they were in now.

“Anija!” Called out the younger from his position in front of a strange statue with a small laugh. “Look at this! They’ve had this weird statue for like- the longest time of some mythical creature! Mothman it looks like he’s called.”

“We aren’t here to sightsee ibotei.” Genji sighed as he joined his brother’s side looking up at the weird creature witha soft, humming chuckle. “Though it is a funny statue.”

A sudden, loud series of gasps suddenly cut through the air, grabbing the attention of the brothers as they quickly hurried over to where a crowd was gathered, pushing through to see the commotion arising around a hollovid of the news showing Live in the window.

“And just moments ago Master Mondatta of the Shambali was shot dead in the streets of London mere centimeters away from the safety of his escort van, much to the shock and horror of onlookers at the latest peace protests. Authorities are still looking for the suspect, but currently are not releasing any information to the public-“

Zayne’s breath caught in his throat has he stared ahead at the news report currently playing, tears welling up in his eyes as the world fell silent aside from the harsh thundering panic rising in his chest. Cold, metal fingers slowly slided along his warm flesh ones as his brother took his hand, face hidden by a visor but by the slight tremor that rattled through his joints, Zayne knew he felt just as upset as he.

“Let’s get away from this crowd…” Genji whispered, taking his brother’d gaze away from the TV as they dragged themselves away from the tragedy onscreen, ducking into an alleyway where Zayne’s composure finally collapsed and he fell to his knees with a choked sob.

“Hes gone…? He’s really- really gone…?” He rasped, looking up towards his brother for comfort only to find the green visor removed and big watery eyes staring back at him, a look of horror plastered upon his brother’s scarred face, confirming that what the two saw on that TV was true. “Fuck…. Fuck.”

Genji said nothing as he knelt down, pulling his brother in close for a soft embrace, knowing that they were both in for a rough ride, though especially his brother as he always fell hard and fast from emotional drops. His little brother’s hands tandled in the fabric of his hoodie as Zayne’s breath began to quicken into hysteric gasping as he desperately tried to stop himself from crying.

“Zayne. Breathe okay? I need you to breathe slowly.” Genji instructed, noticing the signs of panic in his brother in an instant as he gently ran his fingers through his hair and down his back in soothing strokes, his own voice crackling and breaking as emotions began to hit him as well. “Let yourself cry okay? Its okay to cry, its okay to be upset.”

The two brothers sat for a moment, one in silence and one drowning in the tears that streaked down his face. Both cried out at the loss of their dear teacher for what felt like hours, their only comfort being that of the other’s embrace as they rested on the cold alleyway floor.

“There was so much I needed to tell him…” Zayne mumbled out after a while, cuddling up close to his brother with a sniffle. “So much he never got to hear…”

“I think he already knows…” Genji said with a shaky sigh, looking down at his brother with watery eyes. “I think he knew the whole time, he always did know these things ahead of even us.”

“Yeah.” Zayne said with a dry laugh. “He even knew when you were hovering around me before I even did.”

“Oh and he scolded the hell out of me for it.” Genji chuckled with a sniffle, trying to remember the good times in light of the horrors they had witnessed in hopes that it would ease the situation, though thr road ahead of them was foggy and uncertain.

#overwatch #the dragon and the fox #shipcest #mondatta #genji shimada #tw death #tw death mention #i am an emotional wreck about this #i wish i could have done better with this scene but it just came out awkward #its better visually in my head than verbally tbh #if i could draw it it would be a bajilllion times better i swear